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If you can't spend your money privately, is it really your money? If writing open-source code can put you in prison, are you truly free? If privacy tools are treated as criminal infrastructure, how long until thought itself becomes a regulated service? And when they finally roll out their programmable Central Bank Digital Currencies, will you still believe you have "nothing to hide"? View quoted note →

The most common defense of surveillance is always the same: "I have nothing to hide." This is the refrain of the comfortable, the naive, or the historically illiterate. As Cardinal Richelieu warned; "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him." Think about that the next time you justify your own surveillance. The state doesn't need you to be guilty, only vulnerable.

To want financial privacy is to be labelled a criminal. If you build tools that provide it, you're facilitating crime. The legal system implicitly forbids financial privacy for the individual citizen and the Samourai Case is a clear cut example of this. Keonne Rodriguez, co-developer of Samourai Wallet, pled guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, not for committing crimes himself, but for building software! The government has chosen to criminalize privacy technology not because it enables crime, but because it enables independence. Rodriguez's sentence wasn't about law enforcement. It was about sending a message: financial privacy itself is a permissioned privilege. The state wants everyone to know; thou shalt not have financial privacy. That's the only logical conclusion you come to after listening to this chat that @Efrat Fenigson had with Rodriguez.

"This enormous matched-cohort analysis — spanning nearly three million adults — found that COVID-19 vaccination is associated with worsening kidney outcomes that intensify over time and that Pfizer’s mRNA shot correlates with higher all-cause mortality even after early post-vaccine deaths were excluded...The upward trajectory of serious kidney injury and dialysis risk shows no sign of stabilizing, raising serious concerns about the long-term impacts of mRNA injection programs."

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Isn’t it funny how both the “right and the left” are always fighting each other on behalf of their leaders? The same leaders who are the real architects of the mess the world is in today. The same group of people purposely leading the world to hell in a hand basket. Statism is a dangerous terminal disease.

“Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” ‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭17‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭#amen #biblestr

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” ‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭16‬:‭24‬-‭26‬ ‭#biblestr

“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” ‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭16‬:‭19‬ ‭#gm

“All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; And thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, And talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.” ‭‭ Psalm‬ ‭145‬:‭10‬-‭13‬ ‭ Good morning 😇☀️☕️ #gm #biblestr

Antibody production, robust or not, is no guarantee of actual, real-world immunity. Not at all. The assertion that if a vaccine invokes a strong antibody response, it will therefore protect you from catching, spreading, or getting sick from an illness is a faulty inference based on false premises. There are two key reasons why equating antibody production to immunity from disease is a lie: 1. Immune system function involves much more than antibody response. 2. The antibody measured in clinical trials may be irrelevant and/or obsolete to the disease in question.

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“If you see a proposal for an electronic money system check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy" Hal Finney, Extropy Magazine (1993)

The state can obtain your financial records, your location history, your communications metadata, your browsing history, and virtually any other digital information without a warrant or probable cause, merely by issuing a National Security Letter or other administrative demand to the companies that hold this data (3rd party doctrine in the US). These demands often come with gag orders preventing the recipients from even disclosing that they've been served. You can be under total surveillance and never know it, with no judicial oversight, no opportunity to contest the intrusion, no recourse after the fact. This infrastructure never gets repealed, even if "your guy and your party" are in power. It just expands.

The legal system's treatment of privacy is perhaps its most honest expression of state philosophy, which is there is one law for rulers and another for the ruled, one set of freedoms for those in power and another for those who are subject to power. Privacy for me, transparency for thee. Secrecy when I need it, surveillance when I demand it. The laws protecting state secrecy and criminalizing individual privacy are not contradictions, but they are the coherent expression of a system designed to maximize state power while minimizing the capacity for individual resistance.

"All of these things are increasingly being created and programmed and decided by algorithms. And those algorithms are fuelled by precisely the innocent data that our devices are creating all of the time constantly, invisibly, quietly right now...And these activity records are being created and shared and collected... constantly by companies and governments. And ultimately, it means as they sell these... what they are selling is not information. What they are selling is us." Circa 2019

"The new private fund will run on the Ethereum blockchain and be available to qualified investors" Sounds like fun doesn't it? https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/jpmorgan-steps-further-into-crypto-with-tokenized-money-fund-e3535f13

"Instead, Prime Minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement. Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia. You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today," Netanyahu said. What a tangled web we weave.

Israeli officials heap blame on Australian government after Bondi Beach shooting: 'Countless warning signs'

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar blamed Australia